Claudia recalls that Pierre Trudeau was once prime minister of Canada, but she was not alive during Pierre Trudeau's administration and has no clue if she learned the information in school, in a book, or on the news. Claudia is experiencing a failure of _____ memory.
A) semantic
B) prospective
C) source
D) implicit
C) source
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Providing a person with cues instructing how to perform a behavior is an example of
a. prompting. b. reinforcement. c. fading. d. shaping.
Ebbinghaus investigated the time course of forgetting. In some of his studies, he forced himself to learn lists of nonsense syllables and then measured how long it took to relearn the same material after various delays. When he did this, Ebbinghaus found that:
a. the longer the delay, the less time it took to relearn the material b. the longer the delay, the more time it took to relearn the material c. no matter how long the delay was, it took just as long to relearn the material as it had taken to learn it the first time d. no matter how long the delay was, it always took longer to relearn the material than it took to learn it the first time
Knowing that there is a correlation of +.75 between the Test of Verbal Ability (TVA) and performance in graduate school allows us to state that
a) scoring high on the TVA causes one to make good grades in graduate school. b) making good grades in graduate school causes one to make a high score on the TVA. c) people who make low scores on the TVA tend to make good grades in graduate school. d) people who make high scores on the TVA tend to make good grades in graduate school.
Which of the following statements about excessive drinking in college is FALSE?
A) Males are more likely than females to engage in binge drinking. B) Members of fraternities and sororities are more likely to drink excessively than other college students. C) African American college students are more likely than White American college students to binge drink. D) College students who live in dorms are more likely to drink excessively than those who live off campus.